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Immigrant-directed solidarity persisted into peacetime because its psychic satisfactions outlived the war

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aliases@higham_strangers_nodate, loc. 1323

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Immigrant-directed solidarity persisted into peacetime because its psychic satisfactions outlived the war

Evidence

It remains the case, however, that while the invention of the Pieds-Noirs can be put down in part to a politicization of community association activists, their mobilization has continued, despite all the subsequent measures: the amnesties of 1968 and 1981, the indemnity laws of 1970, 1978, 1982, and 1987, the creation of various local museums and monuments, and more recently the ‘Memory Act’ of 2005 – even if that highly controversial Article 4 concerning the ‘positive role of France’s overseas presence’ was later abrogated as unconstitutional. This ongoing activity points up possession by Pieds-Noirs of at least one of the characteristics of ‘circumstantial groups’: insofar as the combination of memory and suffering given expression by ‘victim mobilization’ is the sole factor capable of unifying a disparate group of individuals, an end to mobilization would signify the end of the Pieds-Noirs, whose visibility depends on confrontation with the state. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar
, 833 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Groups reattached war-cultivated solidarity to new enemies after the old one vanished — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of
, 1324; Group solidarity persists only as long as grievance-driven mobilization continues — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar
, 833; Wartime conformity demands persisted into peace and drove postwar xenophobia — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of
, 1323 (+1 more)

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